We the young people of Martha’s Vineyard can help promote healthier living, especially among young Americans, by teaching parents to buy healthier food, getting kids motivated, and helping kids to exercise. By using all of these techniques we could really help a lot of kids lose weight and eat healthier.

To solve the problem of childhood obesity here on the Vineyard and throughout the nation we must start with ourselves. Everyone should make a healthier lifestyle a priority. Parents should be educated on the right food choices they should be feeding their families and exercise should be a must. As the young people of Martha’s Vineyard we can help promote a healthier lifestyle by doing a few things like putting together a “day of play” or going to the elementary schools and encouraging kids to play sports after school instead of Xbox.

Saving Grace

From Gazette editions of July, 1956:

I didn’t know that I would ever want to see salt water again,” mused Dr. Robert Boggs of West Chop as he and his family prepared for the beach. Dr. and Mrs Boggs, their daughter Barbara, 16, and son Robert, 12, are all survivors of the sinking of the Andrea Doria off Nantucket last week, and they reckon themselves as being highly favored by whatever gods may be, that they are together, well, uninjured and able to tell of their frightening experience.

From Gazette summer editions:

It’s one of those odd things that the northeast wind which, most of the year, produces three days — at least — of rain and wind, usually raw and bleak, can produce in late summer and early fall the beautiful phenomenon known as a dry northeaster. A northwest day is pretty fine, but the clear northeast day is finest of all, for its air makes the heart lilt and sing.

WATER’S FINE

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

So I hear the waters that I have gone swimming in every summer since I was an infant (Truman was president) are deemed “maybe polluted.” Ho hum. Not the first in a long line of indignities visited upon what I revere as the Galilee of bathing beaches. Here is a timeline of sorts: